Hey all the great people from the shows I watch! And I love Carmella from, uh, the first six eps of The Sopranos. (One of these days...I will get to seven
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"A girl lacks honor" seems like something that could be a tagline for many here -- where "honor" is NOT the same as goodness. Willow, Sally, Arya, and to some degree Elaine and Diane have that...upstart subversiveness and ethical pragmatism (within the respective bounds of their series).I really love this! I adore "A girl has no honor" as a theme for my favorites! IMO, it also applies to CJ Cregg, Juliette Barnes, Annie Edison, Taystee Jefferson, and Tara Thornton
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Yeah, I mean, Buffy, Willow and Arya have some specific sorts of privilege, whether it's slayer powers, some economic security & genius intellect, or having the one father in Westeros with both the means and the inclination to arrange and encourage fighting lessons for a young woman. However these are pretty heavily blunted by the downsides that come with the life they are thrust into. There is some ambivalence in Diane and Sally about their life, but they are more clear on the ways in which they have specific advantages that give them a leg up on *avoiding*/traversing major problems which others don't have, as opposed to "things that slightly mitigate the horror of being a child soldier with loved ones dropping left and right violently." Whereas, Cersei recognizes that there is injustice in the way men vs. women are treated but largely believes that she is indeed superior to all other women
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I think Alicia had a mix of an ego/St. Alicia objection to the partnership. Alicia was under the impression that she deserved it and it hurt her ego to find out that it was a partly a scheme to raise money. However, she never really acted like she wanted to turn it down. Instead, Alicia was somewhat fishing for an affirmation that her legal acumen earned her the partnership along with an opportunity to make a "righteous" stand against that improper way of doing business so Alicia could feel like she told truth to power before she inevitably accepted the partnership. Diane resented both, knowing that Alicia remained interested in accepting the partnership. Diane was annoyed that Alicia wanted an extra pat on the back as if being made partner in a big firm (albeit a little down on its luck) wasn't enough and that Alicia was acting morally above the place where she works and where she wanted to accept the partnership. And I think Diane knows that Alicia would probably do the same slightly unorthodox money-raising if she was a partner,
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wish that they had been able to examine a little more of the Will-Peter dichotomy actually in how Alicia's relationships with those men help and hinder her -- I mean, obviously they spent a lot of time on it, but what I mean is there are *SPECIFIC* issues that they could have dwelt on more, like, for example, if Will would have to ask Alicia for favours from Peter more, or the extent to which Alicia needs to be on good terms with both men in order to keep her place at LG secure. I mean, it sort of went there. I'm not sure exactly what I want that I didn't get.No, I know what you mean. The Peter/Alicia/Will dynamic and how it relates with romance and her career is really explored- but yeah, there's some honest dimension that's missing. For me, it's that when Alicia is actively fighting with one guy, she's cozy and getting favors from the other. While Will's alive, we never quite see exactly what Alicia is made of as Our Heroine or more pointedly, we never see the converse of how she relies on at least one guy in her corner at all
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Oh hey, I just found this out, did you know that Joss stated in the Serenity Visual Companion that the book he read immediately after The Killer Angels, which *also* inspired Firefly, was a book about Jewish Resistance Fighters in WW2? I know we can interpret this as PROBLEMATIC but I think it's more that there are genuinely heroic aspects of the Serenity crew's rebellion (esp. when it comes to sheltering the Tams) in addition to the more ambiguous civil war stuff.I didn't know that. Actually, I don't even want to be the girl who cries out Problematic but I'd be cooler if Serenity was inspired just by WWII resistance fighters than particularly Jewish resistance fighters. I agree that there were heroic aspects to the Serenity crew, but no one but River was being hunted for their intrinsic qualities since birth and yeah, the conflict in Firefly didn't seem nearly as morally clear-cut as WWII
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No, I know what you mean. The Peter/Alicia/Will dynamic and how it relates with romance and her career is really explored- but yeah, there's some honest dimension that's missing. For me, it's that when Alicia is actively fighting with one guy, she's cozy and getting favors from the other. While Will's alive, we never quite see exactly what Alicia is made of as Our Heroine or more pointedly, we never see the converse of how she relies on at least one guy in her corner at all times by seeing her unable to call on/use both for help. If Will is painted as pointedly mean, suddenly Peter gets warmed and fuzzied up to be Alicia's guy.
Even though Alicia's the main character, she still doesn't get a story as interesting as supporting!Joan in S5 when Joan's had it with being Roger's Rich Man's Mistress and she's finally thrown Greg out. Ha, I think that's exactly it. And while Alicia can reject Peter (to different degrees) after Will's death, she still "gets to" idealize her/Will and see him as the one that got away, rather than someone she
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Oh hey, I just found this out, did you know that Joss stated in the Serenity Visual Companion that the book he read immediately after The Killer Angels, which *also* inspired Firefly, was a book about Jewish Resistance Fighters in WW2? I know we can interpret this as PROBLEMATIC but I think it's more that there are genuinely heroic aspects of the Serenity crew's rebellion (esp. when it comes to sheltering the Tams) in addition to the more ambiguous civil war stuff.I didn't know that. Actually, I don't even want to be the girl who cries out Problematic but I'd be cooler if Serenity was inspired just by WWII resistance fighters than particularly Jewish resistance fighters. I agree that there were heroic aspects to the Serenity crew, but no one but River was being hunted for their intrinsic qualities since birth and yeah, the conflict in Firefly didn't seem nearly as morally clear-cut as WWII ( ... )
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Even though Alicia's the main character, she still doesn't get a story as interesting as supporting!Joan in S5 when Joan's had it with being Roger's Rich Man's Mistress and she's finally thrown Greg out. Ha, I think that's exactly it. And while Alicia can reject Peter (to different degrees) after Will's death, she still "gets to" idealize her/Will and see him as the one that got away, rather than someone she ( ... )
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